CheekyMonkey
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You are very much entitled to your opinion but simply do not agree.
He probably makes it in top ten bowlers of all time for me but no higher.
Not going to convince me otherwise. I rate on what I see from watching. His stats are great but I think he had era where not as many good bats as some other earlier eras plus he did benefit from bowling with the likes of Warne, Gillespie etc.
Do not get me wrong. He was a great bowler but I simply rate all the other guys I mentioned earlier clearly better on what I viewed. He probably has better stats but they are not everything with me.
to each his own, but i love a good discussion.
just out of curiousity, what exactly do you rate bowlers on?
im not a stats guy either, i go on achievements and mcgrath has more than any other bowler, in addition to having a stranglehold on the the best batsmen of his era, such as tendulkar and lara, who most would rate as great players.
he was also fascinating to watch, i have never seen a bowler set batsmen up better than mcgrath. he had a real cerebral side to his game and he was impossible to beat.
compared, to a guy like akram (good job ignoring his match-fixing, btw) who would simply wait for the ball to get old and try bowling an unplayable delivery every over, mcgrath was an absolute genius and streets ahead in terms of intelligence and ability.